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Postpone the regional and departmental elections?
Emmanuel Macron had invented non-essential businesses, he now creates non-essential elections!
The string is starting to get a bit thick, ”
quipped an outgoing president of the region, listing the countries which have maintained their electoral appointments, despite the epidemic, like Portugal, the Netherlands or the United States. .
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"It would be a mistake to oppose democratic life and the requirement of health protection in a purely cynical aim",
judges the president of the LR deputies, Damien Abad.
“We cannot give the feeling to the French that there would be those who want to protect them on one side and the others who want elections.
In all European countries we have voted.
The challenge is to organize these elections and democratic life under protection.
Moreover, this corresponds to the will of the President of the Republic to live with the virus, ”
he continues, pointing to the contradiction, according to him, of the executive.
"The majority not expecting to achieve flamboyant results in these elections, that may also be part of the context but as a good Republican that I am, I dare to hope that this does not come into play"
, wants to believe Dominique Bussereau, the president of the Assembly of the departments of France.
The
"doubt" of
Retailleau
“Emmanuel Macron will try everything. It is much better to manage its future than to manage France ”
, affirms Bruno Retailleau.
He had already felt a
"doubt"
about the holding of the elections after having recently listened to the Prime Minister.
And when he discovers that a reflection is underway at the Élysée on a possible postponement, he remembers the work entrusted by Jean Castex to Jean-Louis Debré on the subject.
"When he was appointed, Debré immediately noticed that his sponsors wanted them to give credibility to a postponement beyond the presidential election because the departmental and regional authorities were going to weaken Macron, who had failed to take root in his party"
, believes the president of senators LR, for whom the head of state defends a
"personal interest"
.
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If such a postponement were to be confirmed, Retailleau would question the existence of a political strategy.
"The autocrat could reveal himself at that time
,
"
he warns, indicating that it is possible, despite the Covid, to campaign thanks to networks and new means of communication.
"Stop telling us that we can telework and not do a telecampaign!"
, protests the senator.
The right-wing opposition is all the more circumspect as it is convinced that Macron "
always intended to postpone the elections to 2022, after the presidential election, by invoking the state of health emergency"
, slips a outgoing region president.
“It can only be a bad vote for LREM, so he wants to step over it.
And in addition, he says to himself that it can weaken the presidents of regions, many of whom are considering being a candidate in 2022, ”
he continues, thinking of Bertrand, Pécresse and Wauquiez.
"The right has indexed its future on the result of an intermediate election of which Macron controls the calendar ..."
, loose an elected right, between observation and dismay.
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